TikTok’s Wes Anderson trend: why the quirky director’s style is ripe for social media parody: Three weeks ago, during a habitual morning scroll through social media, I kept coming across highly stylised video montages of people going about their every day lives. In one video, a man documented himself working in his wood shop. The …
Digital bank runs: social media played a role in recent financial failures but could also help investors avoid panic: SObeR 9426/Shutterstock A crisis of confidence in the US banking sector led people to pull their money from banks including Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse, and more recently, First Republic Bank and California-based PacWest Bancorp. …
47% of South Africans rely on social grants – study reveals how they use them to generate more income: Informal trading is one way grant recipients use to supplement their income. shutterstock South Africa has one of the world’s most expansive social grant system: 47% of the population relies on a monthly grant. Of these, …
South Africans are fed up with their prospects, and their democracy, according to latest social attitudes survey: 29 years of democracy has left its mark. Rather battered and frayed South African flag billowing in the wind against a cloud-strewn sky. The mood among South Africans has soured. The latest findings from the representative survey that’s …
Social media now trumps traditional family networks in Libya – my Facebook survey reached 446,000 women: Connected: Facebook is by far the most popular social media platform in Libya with more than six million users. Prostock-studio via Shutterstock When I told my family and friends I intended to pursue a PhD researching HIV awareness among …
How beauty filters like TikTok’s ‘bold glamour’ affect tweens using social media: Teenagers using social media filters. Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock TikTok’s new “bold glamour” filter “enhances” physical features in a way that makes it difficult to distinguish whether someone is using a filter or not, despite its airbrushing qualities. Unlike its predecessors, this filter allows …
The COVID pandemic risks lasting damage to adult social care: Comeback Images/Shutterstock Three years have passed since the UK government implemented emergency legislation in response to the COVID pandemic. The Coronavirus Act 2020 made amendments to laws affecting many aspects of society, including the duties and powers incumbent on England’s local authorities to provide adult …
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What the complicated social lives of wasps can teach us about the evolution of animal societies: The yellowjacket wasp has a reputation as a British picnic invader Denis Vesely/Shutterstock It’s spring in England. The daffodils are in full bloom. A queen yellowjacket (Vespula) wasp emerges from your loft, dopey with hibernation and hungry for nectar. …
When can your boss fire you for social media use? An expert on the law explains: Burdun Iliya/Shutterstock Gary Lineker isn’t so special. He might be a millionaire celebrity whose tweet criticising the government led to a crisis at the BBC and a national argument. But in being suspended from his job for something he’d …
How changing banks’ corporate social responsibility reporting could prevent future financial failures: A company's internal structure can provide protection from external events. Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) – the failure of the biggest US lender since the 2008 global financial crisis – has created waves across the global banking system. The …
Participation income: the social welfare model that could help communities fight climate change: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock Universal Basic Income (UBI), a programme in which all adult citizens are given a regular amount of money to spend on what they choose, dominates the debate on the future of social policy. It is based on the idea that in …
Lineker-BBC row: survey shows how different outlets approach their staff’s social media presence: The row over Gary Lineker’s tweet criticising the UK government’s proposed asylum legislation has re-ignited the debate about impartiality in journalism and the way news organisations deal with social media. The BBC now looks set to review its social media policies again …
Social pressures leave parents feeling judged for seeking help for sick children: Prostock-studio/Shutterstock As a parent, your primary concern is always to do the right thing for your child. No parent wants their child to suffer because they failed to seek help. But although protecting your child’s health is the primary social expectation you face …
Gary Lineker tweet scandal shows how the BBC has struggled to adapt to the social media age: The BBC’s highest-paid presenter, Gary Lineker, will soon be back in action after being briefly suspended for what the broadcaster described as a breach of its impartiality guidelines. The former footballer’s tweet on March 7 described the wording …
Iran: unions and civil rights groups demand democracy and social justice: Women, life, freedom: protests against the oppression of Iranian women in Iran in Ottowa, Canada, September 2022. Taymaz Valley/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Forty-four years after Iranians rose up against their hated monarch in February 1979, a group of 20 organisations engaged in long-term social …
Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing: Dances and concerts were usually the only opportunity for patients to meet in a large group. K. Drake/Wellcome Collection, CC BY-NC Music has a powerful effect on the listener. It is linked to better mental health, and it has been shown …
Blue ticks: what evolutionary theory tells us about the turmoil around social media verification: Paid-for verification can disrupt our expectations about the reliability of profiles on social media Shutterstock / Poca Wander Stock “Integrity,” “Professionalism”, “Creativity” — three of many words I used to see around one of the offices I worked in in New …